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iifc Gala Benefit Premiere Tonight Loews State I for benefit of NAACP-Project Rebound. Seats available. For information, call Dorothy Watson 682-6994, By CHARLES Mc HARRY Coos All The Way Ellen Burstyn, an Oscar nominee last year for Last Picture Show," just might be singled out again this DIANA ROSS BILLIE HOLIDAY year for her role in "The King of Marvin Gardens." She delivers a bravura performance as a fading beauty who in one wild scene backs off ber hair, destroys all ber make-up, burns her ward 0 robe and guns down a male chauvinist pig. Diminutive Emily Kwok recently opened a Mandarin- est erie at 44th St. and Second Ave.

She calls the rest au rant Little Me. Ralph A 1 -swang's designs backstage at the new Uris Theater include eight star dressing rooms equipped LADY 7 7WSI NGS Lois Nettlcton Ellen Burstyn THE with air-conditioning, private baths and adjoining "green rooms' UES for post-performance Margaret Harris, musical director of "Two Gentlemen of Verona," is jetting back and forth to California to audition actors for the West Coast company or tne show. Reminiscing at Joe Pier 52 about their days as Strug gling Broadway actresses: Eva Marie Saint and Kim Hunter. Attention, all you protesters! No matter what your gripe, you'll have a chance to air it and to get a load on at the same time when Jackie Clark's Squawk Box opens Oct. 26 on First Ave.

at 65th St. Patrons -will be invited to mount a stage no larger than a soap box, take mike in hand and beef about anything from amour hangups to zipper snafus Hollywood eyeful Lois Net tleton is in town for huddles with Alexander Cohen about, starring in the Broadway musical he readying titled "It Love. PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION and BEPPY GOPDY present DIANA ROSS IN 1ADY SINGS THE BLUES also starring BILLY DEE WILLIAMS co-starring RIGHARD PRYOR Drected by SIDNEY J. FURIE Produced byJAY WESTGN and JAMES S. WHITE Executive Producer BERRY GORDY Screenplay by TERENCE McCLOY and CHRIS 'CLARK and SUZANNE de PASSE Music score by MICHEL LEGRAND Filmed in PANAVISIGN In COLOR I I A PARAMOUNT PICTURE What are soft clothes? That's what uniformed cops call the civilian duds -they wear off-duty The Bejart ballet, opening at the Felt Forum next Tuesday, carries four tons of sound equipment for its music, and that is just about the total weight of the 90 dancers in the troupe Robert Mitchum is said to be reading Broadway scripts.

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I type for hours on end, usually until I'm too sleepy to hit the right keys. I don't rewrite- If something needs rewriting, It wasn't good enough to put down in the first, place." Producers Earl Fries and Dick TJtoCfing Woody, waiting for an off-Broadway theater for their "Hubba musical, are presentine a revue at the Upstairs next week Abe and Billy Flatt, the father-son team which operates Reu bens and Hutton are opening two new spots with the same name, Billy's Plum, one in the Times Square area and the other on J. 53th For a Cleaner New York? Edmund Lillys, of the Glou cester House on K. 50th bu, is back from a two-month stay in Greece and he carries a memento in his pocket. Asked how he enjoyed his visit, he displays his souvenir, a small piece of cello "The marvel of this movie is the candor and validity of its relationships as in Rafelson's earlier 'Five Easy Pieces'!" ARTHUR KNIGHT.

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